Italy in the dark!!!!

[Provost Harrison]

Here is a picture of this emergency:

[yaroslav]

As far as I know, the blackout started after a tree fell and broke a power line in Swizterland, then the failure extended to France and in only 4 seconds to all the whole Italy...

[VetLegion]

And what plants would Italy build? Nobody wants more nukes, coal is bad for tourism, oil is probably out of the question because of oscilating price... this leaves natural gas which is much better used for home use.

By the way, there are natural gas fields in Croatian part of north Adriatic which Croatia and Italy are jointly developing. In a couple of years pipeline to Italy should be complete. Croatian project will lag behind though.

Anyway, this reminded me, during the war, there were frequent power outages here with reductions between them. So everyone is pretty much cool about lossing power for a couple hours now.

I reckon some heads will fly in Italy though?

Also, doesn't Italy have a cable link to Greece? Did they send some power now when you needed it?

[Az]

Why is coal bad? there are some pretty good particle filters these days...

I hope they build another one of those in Israel, and not the gas one.

[Datajack Franit]

This will teach those stupid greens that either they give us nuclear power plants or we'll have such shortages every month

[Az]

"No! Don't you know that you can recycle cow **** instead?"

[SlowwHand]

Five hurt as meteorite crashes to earth in India

28th September 2003 04:43 PM



1 hour, 42 minutes ago

BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) - Five people were injured and two houses gutted when a meteorite crashed to earth in eastern India after panicking hundreds of villagers as it shot across the sky, reports and residents said.

The meteorite crashed Saturday in a remote village near the Bay of Bengal in the state of Orissa, local media said, adding five people were sent to hospital with injuries.

The provincial revenue minister, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, said authorities were waiting for more concrete information about damages or casualties.

The meteorite lit up the sky and caused windows to rattle as passed overhead, sending hundreds of people rushing outside unsure what was happening, a resident of Kendrapara town said by telephone.

"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," he said.

Scientists plan to study the remains of the meteorite.

"Such celestial occurrences are common in space but not visible to the naked eye. This is a rare phenomenon in this region," said Jaydev Kar, a scientist at the Pathani Samant Planetorium in Orissa's capital Bhubaneswar.

[Provost Harrison]

The button you are after Slow is 'New Thread' not 'Post Reply'

[SlowwHand]

I can't make new threads until Wednesday.
Both stories have to do with dark, so I figured, WTF.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Azazel
"No! Don't you know that you can recycle cow **** instead?"

Datajack:

This will teach those stupid greens that either they give us nuclear power plants or we'll have such shortages every month

If you do, please build it on the west side of your peninsula, or even better, somwhere in Sicily. Thanks much!

[Datajack Franit]

LOL

[Ned]

I suppose the enemy of construction of new power plants and transmission lines in Italy are the leftist parties, just as they are here in the United States. A large part of the anger here in California against Davis is because everyone here knows the left is the cause of our power problems. One can keep up this anti-capitalist program only so long. In the end, the infrastructure will collapse. It looks like Europe is now feeling the effects of leftist politics.

[The Mad Monk]

How's the power situation there now?

[alva]

Perhaps Berlusconi wanted to prevent the RAI from critisizing him???

Ah wait, he's emperor allready isn't he

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by Ned
I suppose the enemy of construction of new power plants and transmission lines in Italy are the leftist parties, just as they are here in the United States. A large part of the anger here in California against Davis is because everyone here knows the left is the cause of our power problems. One can keep up this anti-capitalist program only so long. In the end, the infrastructure will collapse. It looks like Europe is now feeling the effects of leftist politics.

Uhm... I should tell this to Berlusconi, maybe he will give me a place in his cabinet as minister of... ehr... boh?

Originally posted by The Mad Monk

How's the power situation there now?

Power is back everywhere. I think the emergency was handled pretty good this time.

Originally posted by VetLegion

And what plants would Italy build? Nobody wants more nukes, coal is bad for tourism, oil is probably out of the question because of oscilating price... this leaves natural gas which is much better used for home use.

Problem is, we can not even build new plants. Because ENEL, which is our biggest electricity company can not build new ones, or it would break the 50% rule set by the anti-trust laws, and the other companies don't have the resources to build them. So we are forced to import electricity from France, we import something like 20% of our total energy (and that's way too much, especially considering that the 2nd largest importer: Spain, only imports 3% of its total electricity).

Originally posted by alva

Ah wait, he's emperor allready isn't he

*Giovanni wine sees Berlusconi on TV

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